You find out what someone is really like in "battle," and Olbermann is who you want to be in a foxhole with, Patrick said. "On the air, we had each others' backs," said Olbermann.-David Goetzl: "Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick still brothers long after ESPN's 'Big Show'"; MediaPost blog, 4-6-2012

Yeah, it's a tribute to Joan Walsh's popularity that she didn't stay unemployed even for a day! MSNBC's loss was CNN's gain.

But it's a sad commentary on MSNBC's mindless devotion to "ideological diversity" that they kept Chuck Todd and nutty Hugh Hewitt, rather than holding onto Joan, one of the smartest women around.

-Marie-

You find out what someone is really like in "battle," and Olbermann is who you want to be in a foxhole with, Patrick said. "On the air, we had each others' backs," said Olbermann.-David Goetzl: "Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick still brothers long after ESPN's 'Big Show'"; MediaPost blog, 4-6-2012